Altec Decals - Group Buy

**Panomaniac** · July 5th, 2012, 11:08 PM

OG, you can say that again!

**Old Guy** · July 6th, 2012, 02:01 AM

Weird...board took a long time the two posts?

**martyh45** · July 6th, 2012, 06:37 AM

OG that is really cool. Do you know what type of decal paper they take? I have some laserjet waterslide I can send for testing. I found a free open source vector graphics program the other day “Inkscape” If you get that running on your machine you might be able to print from it to the alps.

**Altec Best** · July 6th, 2012, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by Old Guy

Weird...board took a long time the two posts?

OG I deleted the duplicate post.It may have been the duplicate posting (Error) that took the extra time to post.

Originally Posted by Old Guy

Rain cooled things down a little so I wandered to the barn. Second time was charmed I DID find what I was looking for. An Alps, only an MD1000 though. I've joined the two Yahoo groups, Alps and Alps decal.

Man this thing is filthy. Not used in ten years, last two stored in a dry barn, All the ribbons were out of sockets,

But this thing fired right up, and pulled a surprisingly good test print. Not sure if all the ribbons are in correct place.

Silly thing had SCSI interface for Mac we had, But after an hour on the net found it pops off and parallel underneath.

All this takes an old guy several hours to fumble through. But maybe I or someone can see what kinda copy we can get from it. May be an option. Somebody on CL locally is selling Alps gold foil for ten bucks, maybe can get my brother or the redhead to chase him down. In this heat not an option for me.

**Alps Printer Cartridges**

Yeah it's been so darn hot here too ! 10 or 11 days now in the middle to upper 90's and very high dew points/humidity.Saturday it is supposed to be 103?.

Nice homework OG !! The guy has 40 of those gold foil cartridges too... So I don't think he will run out anytime soon.. I think we are almost ready for printing boys !

Be Safe stay cool ! Do all your outdoor stuff very early in the morning.

Originally Posted by martyh45

I vote for gold foil

I am working on getting this into 2 layer vector format for the printer. anybody have the ability to verify eps or svg file types? I have a full size multi decal sheet ready to check.

Marty I found this free program online..Which can convert to just about any image file type. Online SVG image converter Don't know if this will help ? Can you save it in the AI format ?

Are you using an Adobe program for creating this image file (Decal) ?

Adobe Illustrator * Saving artwork

**wws944** · July 6th, 2012, 06:11 PM

I will soon be picking up a pair of 820s that my audiophile uncle, who sadly passed away last year, left me. The two cabinets don't quite match up. One, which my uncle bought new in the 1950s, has the 'little maestro' emblem in the lower portion of the grill cloth. The other, which he bought used about 10 years later, has the decal across the top. (My uncle insisted they were both 820Cs though. Identical horns, etc. I will check them all out, and start a new thread on them, soon.)

The second 'used' cabinet needs some refinishing for various reasons. It may need to be entirely refinished. With this in mind, I would be interested in a couple of decals as well. I would want something as close as possible to the original though. So it is nice that a couple of you have photographs of original 820 decals. I will be happy to add a photo of this one as well for comparison, but it will probably be a few weeks.

**artlab** · July 7th, 2012, 01:17 AM

If the Craigs list Alps cartridges don't pan out, here's a website that sells the Alps MD1000 cartridges. They also have them listed with parts numbers so wherever you get them you can make sure they'll fit the MD1000. My understanding is the different Alps printers all have different sized cartridges. Alps MD1000 Supplies - ink cartridges, printer ribbons, print cartridges, printer paper

**cradeldorf** · July 7th, 2012, 07:20 PM

Are we sure that picture with the ruler in it is a regulation size speaker decal? If it is it's 1/2 tall from the bottom of the banner to the top of the Altec. And only 1 9/16 long? The Altec letters themselves are 5/16 tall. That's pretty tiny.